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0:02Hey yo, how's everyone going? All right,
0:05so we're going to get back into making
0:08wacky racing vehicles. Um,
0:15so I'm going to jump on Discord actually
0:16and I'm going to go live and see if
0:17anyone wants to jump in and watch
0:21and ask some questions and we'll try and
0:22jump through some stuff.
0:28jump on the creative lounge
0:33and we'll share our screen for them too,
0:34I guess.
0:43Okay,
0:46my terrible desktop, guys.
0:53So, what I'm looking to do right now is
0:55just turn on some API settings in
0:57Blender. Sorry. Um, in Infusion,
1:08we don't need to save that. That's fine.
1:10So, I brought the test fills in that we
1:11were playing with last night just to see
1:12if they load on a car, and they do
1:14without issues. They don't look great,
1:16but again, this is just for testing. We
1:18can reskin and redo them later if we
1:19need to.
1:22Um, but that's fine. All right. So, what
1:24I'm going to do is go back to
1:28our workbench and our options,
1:31and we want to check we've got [snorts]
1:35enable API turned up.
1:38The other thing you want to do is make
1:40sure you've installed your Infusion
1:41Blender tools, all of their add-ons,
1:44um, cuz that'll allow you to do this.
1:48So, go into your assets. And now I'm
1:50going to share an FBX file with you guys
1:53um that you can use for this, but this
1:56is the one I've made so far.
1:59Um so, we'll open this one.
2:03So, we can send it to Blender. Yes.
2:08What this is going to do is going to
2:09open up Blender. It's going to bring it
2:10straight in for us.
2:13Turn the music down a bit.
2:19All right. So, all that's done is
2:21brought in the wheel. But you can see it
2:23even brings it in with the textures,
2:25which is fine. So, we'll get out of
2:27there. We don't want him.
2:31Not sure why it's only brought the wheel
2:33in. That's not good. All right. We'll
2:34bring in the base FBX. That should be
2:37the correct one. Send to Blender.
2:42That's better.
2:46Chances bit intense. Okay, so there's a
2:50few things in here to go through. Um,
2:53you can turn on your tools here.
2:57Now, infusion tools is probably all you
2:59really need. You can use the AR vehicle
3:01tools that you you'll find on GitHub.
3:03It's good for making your fire geometry
3:07and your wheel collisions. Um, otherwise
3:10I don't really use it. Um, and I do
3:13delete some of the default bones that
3:14come in the sample mod. So, I recommend
3:17going and checking the sample mod out
3:19first and having a look at what they
3:22have going on. But, if we jump into
3:24these, we can hide the file or the the
3:27main geometry, which is the collision
3:28geometry. So, UBX is box.
3:33And we can go into the vehicle here. So,
3:36we've got still some collision geometry,
3:39which is this green um which is the fire
3:42geometry. So, we can turn that off with
3:45hide again. Oh, sorry. That was G hide.
3:48All right. Some other things we're going
3:50to do quickly just to make this a bit
3:51easier to read. So, if you hold alt and
3:54middle mouse, you can scroll around and
3:56snap. Otherwise, middle mouse. I'm not
3:58going to teach everyone how to use
3:59Blender. Um,
4:02but I like to turn some basic settings.
4:11Sorry, bear with me. Always forget where
4:14these are.
4:18All right, we'll keep them as they are.
4:21Bones.
4:23Where's viewport? I'm bloody blind
4:25today. All right, change them to stick.
4:28We'll give the names then we'll put them
4:30in front. All right. So, these are all
4:32the bones.
4:36Now, these come in the sample car.
4:39Um, I will give this FBX for people if
4:41you want to play around with it. But the
4:43gist of of these bones usually is you
4:46need to bring them in, you need to
4:47position them in the right spots for
4:49everything to work. Um, there is a
4:51little bit of play.
4:54The big ones that probably need play the
4:56most are the body bone.
5:00So, edit mode.
5:03This really needs to be in line
5:06kind of just below your axles and in
5:08line with your body. Otherwise, your
5:09wheels aren't going to sit right. The V
5:11route always needs to be centered. You
5:13need to make sure that the geometry of
5:15all the V's aligns to the center here in
5:17the zero. Um, I'm not going to go into
5:19details of how to move all the bones
5:21around. I'm sure you guys can figure
5:23that out on your own, but essentially
5:25clicking on any of the bones in edit
5:27mode and then G
5:30and snapping with your Y or your Z tools
5:34or X will allow you to move bones around
5:38and get them in place. Um, so we'll work
5:40through that when I import the new
5:42vehicle in a minute. What we'll do first
5:45is we'll save this as a file that we can
5:47give to people.
5:52And we'll go to the cars. We'll go
5:54toilet car. We get textured. We'll keep
5:57it out of here. We'll make a new folder
5:58here.
6:00All this FBX
6:03rigged.
6:06And we'll just call it sample
6:09FBX or sample carri.
6:13Yeah, that'll do.
6:16Rig.
6:18So I'll save this Blender file.
6:21I'll be able to give everyone this to
6:24use.
6:26All right. So what we'll do is we'll
6:27bring in some basic stuff here. First
6:29things we'll get out of edit mode. We'll
6:32go back. Now the body or load LOD zero
6:37or load zero is like your default. You
6:40can bring in more loads. You can have up
6:43to eight I think in Reforger. A lot is
6:46just depending on how far away you are
6:48from the object, it's going to show
6:50lower resolutions if you bring in lower
6:53poly models.
6:57So,
6:58I'm not too fussed about doing uh doing
7:01that. But, I'll delete this cuz we don't
7:04need it.
7:06And I'll keep my steering wheel for now
7:08because we'll just use the default one
7:09I've set. I don't really
7:12want to go into the animations too much
7:13for that right now. But eventually if
7:15people are interested I can show them um
7:18how to do these animations. Hey, what's
7:20going on? Welcome to the chat.
7:22I am recording at the moment.
7:24>> How are you, man?
7:26>> I'm okay. [snorts]
7:28>> Just going through my Discord, deleting
7:30all the [ __ ]
7:31>> Yeah, I feel you.
7:33So, I'm just doing
7:36>> What are you doing?
7:37>> A tutorial on cars.
7:40Um,
7:42a tutorial on cause, my friend. So,
7:46we're bringing in a toilet.
7:51>> Indeed.
7:52>> Interesting. Interesting.
7:54>> So, this is the toilet.
7:58So, we'll import our FBX we've made in
8:01our previous tutorial that I put on
8:03YouTube
8:04and
8:06do a few things.
8:10All right, get rid of these.
8:13These are just the cameras from where it
8:14imports.
8:16And we should
8:17>> crap my
8:18>> unparent this. Alt P. Clear and keep
8:21transformation.
8:23Want to delete that. Now,
8:25now we can rotate this on the Z-axis
8:29180°.
8:32And we can go shift s
8:36uh selection to
8:40cursor active. Where's my world origin?
8:43Oh, cursor to world origin. No, we don't
8:46want that.
8:50And that's good. Object
8:53selection to cursor.
8:57All right. So, now we're aligned.
9:04TZ to move him up. And we can see where
9:07the wheels are roughly going to align.
9:10And then from here, we can probably move
9:14around and start to scale.
9:22Definitely need some.
9:25Just a moment.
9:34Come here, cat.
9:37My cat is being silly.
9:43>> Shur, please come here. Stop meowing.
9:46Everyone's asleep.
9:48[sighs] [ __ ] All right.
10:05What I might do actually is I'm just
10:07going to go back and reimpport that
10:09object I had quickly.
10:12Shut up, cat. You're chill, man.
10:15All right, we'll bring him back in so we
10:17can see the scale. This might make it a
10:19bit easier. Import
10:22FDX
10:24toilet cut
10:26gy move that along.
10:31OP clear parents.
10:34Delete that. Delete. Delete that. Delete
10:37that silly socket there.
10:41Z 180 GZ up GY.
10:46All right. Now we can start scaling this
10:48to look better.
10:49scale.
10:53I want too big
10:58about there.
11:00G.
11:03Yeah, that's pretty good.
11:07All right. Head to the origin.
11:10Uh, selection to cursive DZ.
11:16snap around and we'll get this in line
11:21his head.
11:23So, it's in line with those axises now.
11:25All right, cool. That's good. We can
11:27move those. Now, we can delete him. All
11:31right. Fire geometry. Let's just hide
11:33that. Dio.
11:38Interesting. Pretty close with that
11:40wheel.
11:42I'm not sure where the axles sits at the
11:44front or the back of this from memory.
11:48At the back. Okay. So, we need to move
11:51that forward.
11:54All right. So, we can go back into here
11:56then edit and go to these bones.
12:01So, the ones you want to move is your
12:03wheel, your suspension, your axle too,
12:05and the opposite side. So, wheel
12:09suspension again for the back.
12:12Um, I'm going to hide these wheel
12:13collisions because they're in the way.
12:16So, clicking on them and H will hide
12:18them.
12:19And if we go in there and tab, should be
12:23able to select just those.
12:26Correct. [snorts] All right. Cool. So,
12:28we'll go back and align them. Y with G
12:32moves them along.
12:34Should snap the wheels there.
12:38Perfect. All right. The front one has a
12:40few more. There's a rotator and a wheel.
12:43Um, the other thing I might do is move
12:46these in slightly.
12:48So,
12:50yeah, [snorts] that doesn't look
12:51completely aligned.
12:58>> How do you make a server? Um,
13:01never mind.
13:03There's a whole lot to that, man. I
13:05could unpack. Um,
13:10so move him on the X to center him a bit
13:13better.
13:15Perfect.
13:16We'll get rid of that.
13:20All right. Now we're starting to look
13:21lined up.
13:24All right. Wheels tab. So we'll go G and
13:27on the X axis we can move this minus.2.
13:32>> [ __ ] hilarious. Good
13:34>> one. We'll say minus 0.05. No, that's
13:37too far.
13:39Minus
13:41what? Minus.05.
13:44That's pretty good. And then for this
13:47one, G
13:49uh positive.05.
13:53All right. We align the front the same.
13:57So, we'll select Oh, not that one. these
14:00guys.
14:03We want to grab not the body, but we do
14:07want to grab the axle.
14:09Oh, that's the pedal brake. Axle's
14:12hiding in there.
14:14We can move that down if we need to, but
14:18I might keep it there now just for the
14:20sake of not breaking the suspension in
14:23this car. [sighs and gasps]
14:26Got those.
14:30Gy.
14:31Snap them back in place. Body's in a
14:34good spot. Root's in a good spot.
14:37Sitting a bit far back from the center,
14:40but that should be fine.
14:42The steering wheel.
14:46All right,
14:47let's go into edit mode on this object
14:51and just
14:53kill this dude quickly.
15:00Where is War Thunder?
15:03Add that to the server.
15:06War Thunder.
15:07>> All right. So, we'll shift highlight
15:09those and delete all of those.
15:12>> What you recording for, dude?
15:13>> I'm recording a tutorial of how to make
15:15these cars for people, man.
15:18>> That's cool.
15:19>> Yeah. had a a few people interested, so
15:22I just thought I'd keep it
15:24straightforward.
15:26Do a video.
15:26>> Pretty cool. Sounds pretty cool.
15:28>> But it's more than just one video. So,
15:33all right. So, this is loot.
15:36Now, we just alt
15:39fill that with F. That'll do. I really
15:43can't be asked to make that look much
15:45better.
15:46Doesn't matter to me that much, to be
15:48honest.
15:50That's fine. All right. Fine. Get out of
15:53there. Next thing, I've already pre-made
15:56my steering wheel and assigned the
15:57steering wheel axises to it. But
16:00essentially, the original sample model
16:02has vertices. The only one that really
16:05matters is the steering wheel if you
16:06want to animate it, but otherwise you
16:08need to uh weight paint all the other
16:09objects.
16:11And weight [clears throat] painting is
16:12done in
16:14and it needs to be 100% weighted.
16:16>> Does boosting do for a server? Boosting
16:18would make your server promoted, I'd
16:20imagine, in like Discord ads.
16:23>> Very weird because there's no point to
16:26boost. Okay,
16:27>> so you can see I've animated this. If I
16:30go click on the bones.
16:34Oh, where am I? Object mode.
16:38Get out of there. I've clicked on
16:39something.
16:44X-ray
16:50to select my bones.
16:56That's why um
16:59go into pose mode and then rotate this.
17:04It doesn't really do it on that angle,
17:06but if alt and seven, what is it? Shift
17:10and seven. No, shift two. Very cool. So
17:15on this angle, it rotates the steering
17:17wheel. So you can set key frames like I
17:20could go uh I want this to be I
17:24key frame zero at this angle and then
17:26hold alt and scroll up to key frame 20
17:28and push R and minus 90 and push I to
17:32key frame that again. Scroll ahead
17:34again.
17:36Push I again. Oh [ __ ] didn't do that
17:39right. All we can go plus 90 I and then
17:44you can cap that at
17:45>> you add rolls to somebody
17:47>> 40
17:50and then if you animate that with space
17:52you can see let's say you make
17:53animations.
17:55[gasps]
17:58>> How do I dude how do I add
18:01rolls for someone? Oh man, couldn't help
18:05you with Discord stuff right now, dude.
18:07That's a whole other kettle of fish.
18:10>> Create roll.
18:12>> All right, so I'm going to stop this and
18:15we'll go back.
18:16>> Name
18:21mod.
18:24>> We're going to move this guy down there.
18:32Fellow mod. [laughter]
18:34Fellow mod.
18:37>> Uh, sorry. We should do that accurately.
18:39So, move it on Y and then GZ. And then
18:42we want to rotate it on the bone. Shift
18:45two
18:48and skeleton mode.
18:53That's pretty good.
18:58So we can click there and go cursor to
19:00selected with shift s and then do that
19:04again and rotate it on
19:07wrong axis. Why is it doing that? That's
19:09interesting.
19:10>> Oh, permissions under permissions.
19:12>> That's fine. We can do that. Rotate Y
19:16X. That's X axis.
19:19GY,
19:22GZ,
19:26GY,
19:28GZ. I want to try and get this lined up
19:30in the center of the steering column.
19:32Cool. Tab out of there. Now we can go
19:34back to object mode.
19:37Just got to get my cat to stop meowing.
19:40One sec, guys.
19:50All right. So, I had some recording
19:53difficulties. Um, I'm going to have to
19:56go back, I think, and show everyone how
19:59I got to this stage, but it's genuinely
20:03only been another 15 minutes, I think,
20:05from where this cut out. The car's not
20:08in a working state by any means. Um, I
20:12got some things and tools I need to fix.
20:16But essentially all we've done is make
20:20the Blender file which I'm going to
20:23upload for people. Um I'm going to talk
20:25people through how to use this but
20:32it's loading in.
20:35We brought in our load zeros,
20:38the steering wheel, and the cart
20:43scaling is way off. So, we need to fix
20:45that.
20:46Um,
20:48we've done the skeletons.
20:52So, I'll upload this for people to have
20:54a copy. As I said,
20:56a few things might need to be moved in
20:58this still, but the basic concept is you
21:01need to make sure your body bone is
21:04always in the right place.
21:06Uh, you need to align your wheels, your
21:08rotators, your suspension, and your
21:10axles, your steering, and your doors and
21:14where you sit. The rest is semantic
21:18depending on the kind of vehicle you've
21:20got. You see, I've got uh doors on this
21:25right 01, left 01. You can also have
21:28right 02, left 02 if you got rear doors.
21:31You can have passenger seats instead of
21:32the pilot seats. All of these different
21:34kinds of things. Um, I might go in and
21:36actually move
21:39one of these.
21:45Uh,
21:47I'm not too stressed on actually.
21:55And you can see the bone set up here. So
21:58essentially everything's linked back to
22:00this route down the bottom.
22:10Uh, the origin is in the middle there.
22:13Ignore where my cursor is. Didn't mean
22:16to push that key. Cancel. Shift S. Go to
22:20selected.
22:22Okay. So, let's do world origin. Yeah,
22:24this [snorts] is where everything links
22:25back to.
22:28So, what I'll do is I'll um I'll upload
22:31these files. Oh, that's probably why
22:32we're well off center. Let's move him
22:37back to selected. No.
22:46selection to cursor. Oh, okay. It thinks
22:49it's there. That's fine. That's its
22:51origin. So, it moves along that bone and
22:54pivots up to these.
22:58All right. Anyway, apologies. I cut this
23:00off. Um, I'll have to come back and show
23:04people this. I'm going to have to watch
23:05this video again, I think, and see where
23:07it's dropped out and what I've missed.
23:10But bringing this in isn't too hard.
23:13Exporting it with Infusion Tools isn't
23:15too hard. Uh you just need to make a
23:17collision for the fire geometry and
23:20things like that, which you can
23:22literally just make some boxes
23:24um and drag them over what I've got.
23:37Uh, and once you've done all these
23:39things,
23:41you can drag it in as your XOB files.
23:49Uh, where is it? Vehicles, toilets,
24:00and you can set up those e- materials
24:01that we set up yesterday and drag those
24:03on top.
24:05You need to make sure you bring it in
24:06and click export skinning.
24:10And that will bring all the bones in.
24:15That's kind of the gist of it. And then
24:18from there, you clone one of your
24:21existing prefabs
24:23and you'll go into the prefab
24:26um and start to edit it. So,
24:30we can go through what I've changed, but
24:32the big things is just removing
24:33unnecessary components,
24:36moving the the character into the right
24:38spots, which uh he is certainly not at
24:42the moment.
24:46Oh god.
24:50Too fast.
24:54As you can see,
24:58definitely uh some adjustment needed.
25:06Don't know where that's gone.
25:12Oh [ __ ] Didn't mean to put it out
25:13there. Put him back there. Uh click in
25:17there. Apparently it thinks he's down
25:20there for some reason. Oh, that's the
25:22neck offset. Interesting.
25:25Not played with that value before.
25:29May need to move him in line with the
25:32offset. Anyway, that's something else to
25:35[ __ ] with and we can play with that
25:36later. But if you put this in and
25:38hypothetically play with it now,
25:42we have a very poorly weighted vehicle.
25:45You see the jump tree was bad weighted
25:48at the back.
25:50Where's the door there? Yeah, sorry. Got
25:52to align these bones better.
25:55And obviously the steering's well off.
26:09So, we're going to go back and revisit
26:11most of this, I got to say.
26:21The wheels need a lining,
26:24but they work even with that [ __ ] you.
26:40Oh man, it's so hard to control at the
26:42moment.
26:48Just don't touch it. See if we make it.
27:00Ah, no good.
27:06Um, and eventually I'll show you how we
27:07can fix these icons, get rid of the
27:10wrecked,
27:12uh, and then eventually bring them into
27:19into these areas and sections and get
27:21them their logos and all that crap if
27:22anyone's interested.
27:27All right, so I'll leave it there for
27:28now. Um, I think I need to rewatch this.
27:30I'm going to upload it anyway and I'll
27:32figure out what dropped and I will chat
27:35to everyone next time. If anyone's got
27:38questions, please feel free to reach
27:39out.

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